Call of the Dead review(apart of the Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack)

Call of the Dead is the newest nazi zombies mode for Call of Duty: Black Ops, and it continues with the weirdness of the map Five. Adding in actors Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michael Rooker(The Walking Dead), and Robert Englund(Nightmare on Elm Street and it's many sequels), this new map is all about the B movie.

Starting with an awesome first cutscene, you are thrust into the game, with a zombie taking away George Romero. To start off the first thing you see is a zombified Romero. At first I didn't really know what to do, shooting him a few times makes him summon some zombies. The first area of the level is very much like the other maps, small, cramped, and there is the M14 and the Olympia shotgun. To your left and right are the two ways to go throughout the level. Unlike the other maps, is the constant threat of Romero hitting you with an electrified light. This is really fucking annoying, and starts to get on your nerves right from the start. I understand why they put this in though, it's to keep you on your toes, so you can't stay in one spot for very long. If you try to shoot him more, he gets pissed and chases you, this is inevitable, but you can make it happen faster by shooting him. Once he is pissed off, he sprints after you and he won't stop until you go into the water. Once you learn this trick, it really isn't all that frustrating, and adds a new sense of challenge to the game.

The two other area's of the map are the ship, where the power is, and the lighthouse. Both of which take awhile to get to the water, if you fully explore them. They also have the standard weapons on the wall(MP5k, Stakeout, M16, etc.). Overall after a few games, this mode is really best played with other people, playing by yourself is really difficult.

This new map, is hard at first, and a big change from the previous maps, but is a welcomed addition to the game. It is worth buying, and included in the download are the 4 other multiplayer maps.

Pretty Hate Machine review

Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails, is their debut album, coming in 1989. Trent Reznor recorded most of this album working as a janitor at Right Track Studios, which is an amazing accomplishment.

1. Head Like a Hole

Opening the album is this hard hitting track. You can hear Trent Reznor's struggle and energy on this song, and the vocals, drums, guitars, and synths are great. The song has the recurring theme in Reznor's songs of "You're going to get what you deserve", and it definitely is a great way to start off one hell of an album.

2. Terrible Lie

As Head Like a Hole ends, this song transitions into this deep brooding track. Trent Reznor's emotions are felt heavily in this song, and it doesn't really tell any sort of story, like some of the other tracks on this album, but it still is a very commendable track, even if Trent Reznor doesn't like it.

3. Down In It

A song about change and fading away from what you used to be, it is the most bass happy song on the album, and the guitar work is non-existant on this song, but the drums beat your ears. The protagonist of the song is speaking about a change that he went through, where he was high up, and now he's as low as he can be, and about how he "used to have something deep inside, and now it's just this hole that's open wide". This song definitely is one of the best on the album.

4. Sanctified

Starting off with a drum and sample beat, then goes into a funky bass line, this is one of the sad songs on the album. It's about a man who's girlfriend or wife has so much control over him, that he will do anything for her whether it be "walking through the nicest parts of hell" or her "changing him into someone else", this song also might have the meaning of the girl being cocaine, and Trent Reznor's addiction to it. If you faintly listen before he starts singing "I'm just caught up in another of her spells" you can hear Trent or someone else reading a letter to their parents. Great song. Really moving.

5. Something I Can Never Have

Sanctified transitions into this song, starting with piano, and Trent begins singing. It's one of the ultimate sad songs, or a break up song, or a girls are evil song. It is really moving, and is probably one of the more beautiful songs that Trent has written. Anyone who is going through emotional times, will recognize what Trent is trying to say with this song. It only gets heavier at the very end of the song, where you can tell the Reznor put his heart and soul into this song.

6. Kinda I want To

One of the songs that sounds like newer NIN, this song is probably(in my opinion) one of the weaker songs on the album, but it's still a 7 or an 8 of a song. The song is about homosexual desires that Trent has had, and how he coped with them. A really strong emotional song, but still one of the lesser songs on the album.

7. Sin

The heaviest song on the album, is about a sexual experience with someone, where one person loved them, but for the other person is just a one-off experience. Reznor shows his deep anger in this song, it's one of the more relatable songs on the album. Control, trust, and the loss of purity are all themes in this song. The samples and vocals are top notch on this song.

8. That's What I Get

Put together Sin, That's What I Get, and Something I Can Never Have, and you have the ultimate break up/hatred playlist. It tells of someone being betrayed by their partner, and the thoughts of the person. This is probably the best song on the album, and Trent Reznor is out in full force. It exposes a vulnerable Reznor, and most of us can relate to it.

9. The Only Time

Another sexual song about desire and sex. The funkiest song on the album especially in the choruses, you can really hear the bass guitar. It's about a one-night stand while being drunk, a great desire song. Trent Reznor himself has said that this song "Is about fucking".

10. Ringfinger

One can only guess what this song is about from the title, marriage of course. Trent Reznor has never been married, but he still sings about it well. A man, who is in a marriage with a demanding woman, and he is pussy-whipped. He does everything that she does, connect this song with Sanctified.

Pretty Hate Machine is a great debut album for an awesome band in Nine Inch Nails, and the whole album is about sex, desire, hatred, anger, and sadness. If you haven't heard this album, I beg you to listen to it and give it a chance.